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December 27, 2009

Some liberal and atheist Knights claim religions are designed by the powerful as mechanisms of social control. While this has sometimes been the case, efforts to control human behavior this way are more rightly understood as abuses of a religion’s societal bulbs. Religions are meant to invoke divine awe, not enforce divine order. These Knights also overemphasize the importance and role of the societal bulb in relation to the other three bulbs of religion.